Crime & Safety
Greenpoint Fire Burns Down Manhattan Ave Hardware Store
Smoke engulfed the north Brooklyn neighborhood in the wee hours Tuesday morning.
Photo courtesy of Kurt G. Wahlstrom/Instagram
Flames tore through a hardware store on the ground floor of a two-story building along busy Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, around 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).
More than 100 firefighters from 25 units battled the fire for over an hour and a half, an FDNY spokesman told Patch.
Photos taken at the scene showed the full interior of Best Value Hardware being devoured by flames.
No residents were injured in the fire, according to the FDNY. However, two firefighters were transported to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with minor injuries.
The fire was declared “under control” around 2 a.m.
Kurt G. Wahlstrom, a nearby resident, confirmed on Instagram that the evacuees he ran into on the street appeared to be fine.
“Smelled smoke in my room & went outside to find the hardware store on my block on fire...” Wahlstrom wrote. ”Smokescreen and fire trucks lined up down Manhattan Ave. Terrible.”
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